Union of Burkinabé Communists

Union of Burkinabé Communists Union des Communistes Burkinabè
Founded	August 1984
Dissolved	1989
Merger of	GUML Marxist–Leninist Group
Merged into	Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Left-wing
Politics of Burkina Faso Political parties Elections

Union of Burkinabè Communists (in French: Union des Communistes Burkinabè) was a communist party in Burkina Faso. UCB was founded in August 1984 by the Group for the Unity of Marxists–Leninists (Groupe pour l'Unité des Marxistes-Léninistes, GUML, founded in 1983), the Marxist–Leninist Group (Groupe Marxiste-Léniniste, founded in 1979 through a split in the Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party) and one other group.

In 1986 it signed the appeal of four organizations for revolutionary unity and support to the revolutionary government of Thomas Sankara.

In 1987 Sankara tried to marginalize the UCB. This was one of the factors that provoked the 1987 coup d'état, as the UCB was close to the coup leader Blaise Compaoré. Together with smaller groups, the UCB founded the Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement in 1989.